Space

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from NASA’s Parker Solar […]

For the first time, scientists have measured a long-sought global electric field in the Earth’s atmosphere. This field, called the

As the youthful universe congealed under the pull of gravity, matter knotted itself into galaxies, galaxy clusters and filaments, weaving

At age 12, Tracy Slatyer felt sorry for a book. She read a newspaper article about how lots of people

A new look at decades-old data from the Apollo missions has revealed evidence of tens of thousands of previously unknown

Imagine going on a week-long business trip and not coming home until next year. That may be the case for

Contrary to a previous report, there is no evidence for an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, the Milky Way’s

One of the most compelling possible signs of extraterrestrial communication may have an astrophysical explanation. Called “Wow!” signal, the bright

A distant stellar nursery holds a cluster of newborn worlds the size of Jupiter, the smallest of which is surrounded

The biggest conundrum in cosmology may be closer to being solved, thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope. Scientists disagree